Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove

2007-04-03 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 12:17 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > On closer inspection, I found that my panacea.dat inside > ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/randomnumber.default is corrupted. Is there any way > to reconstruct this file based on the emails that I have? My emails seem to > be intact though.

Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove

2007-04-03 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > >> It sounds to me like something modified your prefs.js file. That is the >> file that controls which mail folders and accounts are available. >> According to the official documentation, you're not su

Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove

2007-04-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Joe Hart wrote: > It sounds to me like something modified your prefs.js file. That is the > file that controls which mail folders and accounts are available. > According to the official documentation, you're not supposed to directly > edit that file, but I know it is possible. BUT you cannot let

Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove

2007-04-02 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > >> I know why. The default mail directory and your mail directory are not >> the same. The easy fix is to put your mail somewhere else (like >> /home/raju/mail then adjust the profile.ini file to not

Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove

2007-04-02 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Joe Hart wrote: > I know why. The default mail directory and your mail directory are not > the same. The easy fix is to put your mail somewhere else (like > /home/raju/mail then adjust the profile.ini file to not use a relative > path and to use specifically that directory. > This is not the p

Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove

2007-04-02 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > >> After this long and irrelevant story, do you have your mail back or do >> we need to troubleshoot it further? >> >> Joe >> > > Interesting experience. Thanks for sharing it. > > However, I still ha

Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove

2007-04-02 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
KS wrote: > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> Kushal Kumaran wrote: >> >>> You haven't mentioned what error message, if any, you are getting. >>> http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile has info on backing >>> up and restoring thunderbird profiles. Maybe something there might >>> help.

Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove

2007-04-02 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Joe Hart wrote: > > After this long and irrelevant story, do you have your mail back or do > we need to troubleshoot it further? > > Joe > Interesting experience. Thanks for sharing it. However, I still have the same problem : When I start icedove, it brings up the "account wizard" instead of

Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove

2007-04-02 Thread Mitja Podreka
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: 2) Is there any way to tell icedove to migrate all the old emails to its newer (if any) default location? I've just migrated from Sarge/Thunderbird to Etch/Icedove. Before I started Icedove for the first time I simply copied the ./mozilla-thunderbird folder from

Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove

2007-04-02 Thread KS
Joe Hart wrote: > KS wrote: >> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >>> Kushal Kumaran wrote: >>> You haven't mentioned what error message, if any, you are getting. http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile has info on backing up and restoring thunderbird profiles. Maybe something

Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove

2007-04-02 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: [snip] >> $cat .mozilla-thunderbird/profiles.ini >> [General] >> StartWithLastProfile=1 > >> [Profile0] >> Name=default >> IsRelative=1 >> Path=bafaowsk.default >> Default=1 > > >> Looks correct to me except the "Default=1" lin

Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove

2007-04-02 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 KS wrote: > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> Kushal Kumaran wrote: >> >>> You haven't mentioned what error message, if any, you are getting. >>> http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile has info on backing >>> up and restoring thunderbird prof

Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove

2007-04-02 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > >> This is fixable. First, find the path that icedove is using for it's >> mail. On my system it is .mozilla-thunderbird, but it might not be on >> yours. > > On my system also, all the email is stor

Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove

2007-04-02 Thread KS
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Kushal Kumaran wrote: > >> You haven't mentioned what error message, if any, you are getting. >> http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile has info on backing >> up and restoring thunderbird profiles. Maybe something there might >> help. > > The page says

Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove

2007-04-02 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Kushal Kumaran wrote: > You haven't mentioned what error message, if any, you are getting. > http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile has info on backing > up and restoring thunderbird profiles. Maybe something there might > help. The page says that, In Linux the path is ~/.thunderbird

Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove

2007-04-02 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Kushal Kumaran wrote: > You haven't mentioned what error message, if any, you are getting. I was not receiving any error messages. Previously when I start thunderbird, it directly goes to my accounts page and displays all the folders, news groups etc., Now, when I run icedove, it is starting the

Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove

2007-04-02 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 12:10:10PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > > > > > This is fixable. First, find the path that icedove is using for it's > > mail. On my system it is .mozilla-thunderbird, but it might not be on > > yo

Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove

2007-04-02 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 4/2/07, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joe Hart wrote: > > This is fixable. First, find the path that icedove is using for it's > mail. On my system it is .mozilla-thunderbird, but it might not be on > yours. On my system also, all the email is stored in ~/.mozilla-thunde

Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove

2007-04-02 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Joe Hart wrote: > > This is fixable. First, find the path that icedove is using for it's > mail. On my system it is .mozilla-thunderbird, but it might not be on > yours. On my system also, all the email is stored in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ 93 4972 12:06 PM $ls -al .mozilla

Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove

2007-04-02 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Couple of months back, the hard drive on one of my machines has gone bad. > That machine used to run thunderbird (dont remember which version) and all > my email was stored in /home/username/.mozilla-thunderbird . I copie

migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove

2007-04-02 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Couple of months back, the hard drive on one of my machines has gone bad. That machine used to run thunderbird (dont remember which version) and all my email was stored in /home/username/.mozilla-thunderbird . I copied the old /home partition (from backups) onto a new machine's /home/username. Howe